Skilled and accomplished CPA, Michael E. Davis, is as devoted to life as he is to his profession. “It is not easy balancing my work and personal life, especially during the two major busy seasons,” said Mike, but he somehow encounters ways to fulfill his adventurous lifestyle. Before Mike began his professional accounting career, he trekked the lands of Europe for three months after his college graduation in 1983. Mike now enjoys venturing out onto Lake Tahoe in his 27’ Sea Ray during the summer months and skiing in the winter. He mentioned that keeping up with the constant changes in the accounting industry is an ongoing effort, and that while it makes the profession far from dull it does keep him busy even in the slower time of the year.

Mike’s adventurous lifestyle is prominent in his workplace too. Currently, he is Barnard, Vogler & Company's Director of Accounting and Audit. He has over 26 years of public accounting experience in private sector, nonprofit and governmental accounting and audit. He joined the firm in 1986 after experience with a national accounting firm and became a director and shareholder of Barnard, Vogler & Co. in 1998. It doesn’t end there though; Mike is also the current President of the Nevada Society of CPAs, and has been credited for spearheading the Society’s re-branding efforts.

Mike’s industrious initiative to further advance the professionalism and growth of the Nevada Society of CPAs has proved to be a challenge, but no one doubts his enthusiastic efforts. “Mike Davis is a dedicated professional”, says Sharon Uithoven, the Society’s Executive Director. “Mike’s sense of humor is as present as his quiet determination.  It has been a pleasure for everyone on the Society staff to work with him this past year.”  Something that many people may not know about Mike is his passion for traveling and excitement, which is why Mike is able to keep up with the fast-paced accounting environment where regulations are constantly updating and changing.

The best part about being a CPA, in Mike’s opinion, is the sense of providing a service that is helpful and appreciated by businesses and individuals. However, he also credits much of what makes his job so great to the many employees that work at Barnard, Vogler & Co. “They are truly a bunch of terrific people to work with and they can really make a difference during the busiest times of the year,” he explained.

“There wasn’t really any defining moment,” Mike commented about how he knew he wanted to immerse in the profession. “I enrolled in the business school at the University of Santa Clara, which had a top notch accounting program and excelled in my accounting courses. It just seemed like the right thing to do to pursue an accounting degree.”  Some might say Mike was born to be a CPA. Mike was one of four boys that interrupted his mother’s CPA career which began in the early-fifties when she was among the first women ever hired by one of the then “big eight” accounting firms in San Francisco, California. Fortunately, she found her way back to the profession she loved in the early seventies when she became one of the founding members of Barnard, Vogler & Co. Mike knew he was destined to make the same career choice.  The rest…one could say… is history.